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How important has oil money been to antinuclear movement?

…arth managed to promote the work of a nearly unknown college dropout named Amory Lovins and to place his 10,000 word essay titled “The Soft Energy Path” in the October 1976 edition of Foreign Affairs, just in time to influence the outcome of the 1976 US presidential election. I noted that there is an historical connection between the Council on Foreign Relations, the group that continues to publish Foreign Affairs, and the global petroleum busines…

Charles D. Ferguson, Council on Foreign Relations, discounts nuclear (surprise, surprise)

…my favorite serial college drop out and Friends of the Earth campaigner – Amory Lovins. (The various levels on which that article is interesting include timing, source, authority, politics, etc.) It is pretty obvious where Mr. Ferguson and his organization get their intellectual inspiration on the subject of energy. (Here is an interesting statistic. During the period from 1980-2004 (a period with decent world wide statistics on energy), world en…

Differences Between "Mr. Nuke" – John Rowe – and "Atomic Rod" Adams

…nterested in new plants. Here is a quote from a 2008 document published by Amory Lovins, the long time anti-nuclear activist and two-time college dropout, titled The Nuclear Illusion: In 2005, the Chairman of Dominion, an applicant for early nuclear site approval, told The New York Times, “We aren’t going to build a nuclear plant any- time soon. Stanford [sic] & Poor’s and Moody’s would have a heart attack. And my chief financial officer would, to…

TruthDig discussion about the " Nuclear Kool-Aid" continues

…Goodman of Democracy Now had posted an article following her interview of Amory Lovins about nuclear power. During the interview, Lovins casually stated “You know, I’ve worked for major oil companies for about thirty-five years, and they understand how expensive it is to drill for oil.” I wish that Goodman would have realized at that point that her guest had a mission to sell fossil fuels and protect oil company profits, but apparently she missed…

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Why James Hansen might be underestimating nuclear energy’s growth potential and why Joe Romm is wrong

…omm, an energy industry and climate change pundit who was once mentored by Amory Lovins at the Rocky Mountain Institute, recently sat down at his keyboard to produce a piece providing the basis for his opinion that James Hansen, Ken Caldeira, Tom Wigley and Kerry Emanuel — and hundreds to thousands of other nuclear energy proponents — are wrong about nuclear power and overestimating its potential contributions to our future clean energy needs and…

Is Natural Gas A Bridge To A Utopia Driven By The Wind And Sun, Or Is It A Pier That Cannot Go More Than Halfway

A common theme in works or speeches by Joe Romm, Amory Lovins, T. Boone Pickens, and Tim Wirth (and a whole chorus of other like minded people) is that natural gas, which is mostly methane (CH4), is a bridge to a utopia that can be powered by natural flows from the sun and wind. The problem with that view is that burning methane inherently produces a large volume of waste products that include about 67% of the CO2 that is produced by burning pure…

Working for my grandchildren – They are the reason I am a pronuclear activist

…s will simply have to become better at following the advice of people like Amory Lovins. His answer to fuel supply challenges is to simply learn to do without. I like my answer better – we should be working harder to enable future generations to do more with more readily available energy resources. There is no time like the present to prepare for the future. Do it for your grandchildren! Additional Reading Wall Street Journal (February 23, 2011) I…

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False media balance – radiation health risks contrasted against climate change

…(Joe likes to espouse the philosophy of one of his first energy mentors – Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, where Joe worked from 1991-1993.) My response then would be – how much additional cost do you think that the excessive fear of radiation has added to the cost of building and operating nuclear energy facilities? It is a rather incredible number to contemplate from the viewpoint of seeing just how much effort we put into the proc…

Salon.com February 26, 2009 discussion about nuclear power

…than 150 at last count) The term “fossil fuel” does not equal “petroleum” Amory Lovins admits he works for oil companies Hydrogen production is certainly not “cheap” In that thread you will find two or three rather dismissive anti-nuclear posters whose main response to any information is to claim that it is irrelevant and whose main sources of information appear to be whatever they happen to find on the Internet that supports their belief system….

Credibility of Influential Paper On ‘100% Renewables’ Challenged by Peer-Reviewed Critique
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Credibility of Influential Paper On ‘100% Renewables’ Challenged by Peer-Reviewed Critique

…energy. It has been referenced by such luminaries as Sen. Bernie Sanders, Amory Lovins, Al Gore, Bill McKibben and Mark Ruffalo. Jacobson’s papers and appearances have also received publicity support from the Stanford public affairs office. The asserted possibility of an energy system powered completely by non-nuclear renewables has resulted in a number of entities, including major corporations, municipalities, certain crunchy states and even ent…

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295th Carnival of Nuclear Energy Blogs

…omm, an energy industry and climate change pundit who was once mentored by Amory Lovins at the Rocky Mountain Institute, recently sat down at his keyboard to produce a piece providing the basis for his opinion that James Hansen, Ken Caldeira, Tom Wigley and Kerry Emanuel — and hundreds to thousands of other nuclear energy proponents — are wrong about nuclear power and overestimating its potential contributions to our future clean energy needs and…

Comment from a reader about support for Czech anti nuclear movement

…can explain why what they are doing is OK, and I think those guys such as Amory Lovins “get it” not only because of funding, but also because their shallow rooting in hard sciences… Anyways, I’m glad that the wheel is turning 🙂 I’ve seen several online discussions in Czech and the only anti-nuclear contributers were a few well known professional activists which got completely ridiculed by dozens of pro-nuclear contributors (and usually one or two…

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